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9-11 Detainees' Illegal Detention Claims Dismissed, Prisoner Abuse Claims Remain by Matthew Clarke In a 99-page, unpublished opinion dated June 14, 2006, New York federal district judge John Gleeson dismissed the illegal detention claims by eight ex-prisoners arrested in a post-9-11 sweep of illegal immigrants. He refused to dismiss their …
Article • August 22, 2016
$248,817.43 in Attorney’s Fees and Costs Awarded in Civil Rights Suit by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan awarded $248, 817.43 in attorney’s fees and expenses to a plaintiff in a federal civil rights suit. The plaintiff in the case sued alleging that he was the target of unconstitutional profiling …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon Blacks Imprisoned Seven Times Rate of Whites by African Americans are six times more likely than whites to be in the Multnomah County, Oregon jail, according to a recently released study. They are also 4.1 times more likely to be prosecuted, 4.4 times more likely to be convicted, and …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon African American Incarceration Far Exceeds National Average by Oregon ranks seventh in the nation in the disproportionate number of incarcerated African Americans, far outpacing the national average according to a recently released report of The Sentencing Project, in Washington, D.C. Less than 2 percent of Oregonians are African American, …
Texas Man Exonerated By DNA Test He Didn't Request by Matthew Clarke A Texas man, Michael Phillips, 57, recently became the first person to be cleared of a crime by DNA testing he did not request. Phillips was accused of raping a white teenage girl at a Dallas motel in …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Race and Incarceration in Delaware: A Preliminary Consideration, Eichler, 2003 Raaccee aan nd d IIn nccaarrcceerraattiioon n R nD Deellaaw waarree:: iiAn Preliminary Consideration A Preliminary Consideration by Thomas by P. Eichler Thomas P. Eichler Published by Delaware Center for Justice and Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League The production and printing …
Publication • August 9, 2016
The Vortex - The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties, Justice Policy Institute, 2007 The Vortex The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties A Justice Policy Institute Report December 2007 The Justice Policy Institute is a public policy …
Article • August 5, 2016
Milwaukee Man Receives $506,000 Award for Wrongful Stop by A Wisconsin federal jury awarded $506,000 to a man who was stopped without reason and wrongfully arrested. As Leo Hardy was leaving his mother’s home, Milwaukee police officers Michael Gasser and Keith Garland, Jr., stopped him on March 13, 2012, for …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Black Lives Matter, Racial Inequality in Criminal Justice Report, The Sentencing Project, 2015 BLACK LIVES MATTER: ELIMINATING RACIAL INEQUITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by …
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force, National Bureau of Economic Research,2016 NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN POLICE USE OF FORCE Roland G. Fryer, Jr Working Paper 22399 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 …
The Color of Justice - Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons, Sentencing Project, 2016 THE COLOR OF JUSTICE: RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITY IN STATE PRISONS For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was …
Stopped, Fined, Arrested - Racial Bias in Policing and Traffic Courts in California, EBCLC, 2016 April 2016 | www.ebclc.org/backontheroad Acknowledgements Contributors Stephen Bingham, Michael Herald, Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid, retired Policy Advocate, WCLP Mari Castaldi, Dana Isaac, Program Coordinator, EBCLC Thurgood Marshall Fellow, LCCR Elisa Della-Piana, Alex Kaplan, …
Doe et al v. Piehota et al, VA, Class Action Complaint, terrorist federal watch list, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION BABY DOE, by his next friend, Father Doe; YASEEN KADURA; ANAS ELHADY; OSAMA HUSSEIN AHMED; GULET MOHAMED; AHMAD IBRAHIM AL HALABI; MICHAEL EDMUND COLEMAN; …
In the Shadows of the War on Terror - Persistent Police Brutality and Abuse in the US, Ritchie Mogul, 2006 'lHE SHADOWS OF THE WAR 7ERROR: I'ERSISIENTPOLICE BRUTALllYAND ABUSE UNllED STATES A report prepared for the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of the The …
Publication • February 19, 2016
Targeting Blacks - Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the US, Human Rights Watch, 2008 United States H U M A N Targeting Blacks R I G H T S Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States W A T C H Targeting Blacks Drug Law Enforcement and …
Publication • February 12, 2016
Does the Race of Places Influence Police Officer Decision Making, Lum, 2010 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Does the “Race of Places” Influence Police Officer Decision Making? Author: Cynthia Lum, Ph.D. Document No.: …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Tracking Enforcement Rates in NYC 2003-14, Misdemeanor Justice Project, 2015 Tracking Enforcement Rates In New York City 2003-2014 A Report of the Misdemeanor Justice Project at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Presented to the Citizens Crime Commission December 11, 2015 Tracking Enforcement Rates in New York City, 2003-2014 Introduction …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Racial Disparities in FL - Safety Belt Law Enforcement, ACLU Racial Justice Program, 2016 RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FLORIDA SAFETY BELT LAW ENFORCEMENT A REPORT BY THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION RACIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF FLORIDA JANUARY 2016 Racial Disparities in Florida Safety Belt Law …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Selective Policing, ACLU, 2015 Jersey City New Brunswick Elizabeth Millville December 2015 Selective Policing Racially Disparate Enforcement of Low-Level Offenses in New Jersey A Report by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Selective Policing: Racially Disparate Enforcement of Low-Level Offenses in New Jersey Acknowledgements This report was written …
Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, DOJ Civil Rights Division, 2015 Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division March 4, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. REPORT SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ 1 II. BACKGROUND.................................................................................................................. 6 III. FERGUSON LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS ARE FOCUSED ON GENERATING REVENUE ............................................................................................... …
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